CUED
Center
for Urban Economic Development
University of Illinois at Chicago
Business
Plan for Purrfect Services -
A Worker's Cooperative Cleaning Company
Project Number: 281
Report Date: June 1989
Author(s): Deborah Bennett, Patricia Wright
Purrfect Services, a start-up workers cooperative sponsored by the Austin Peoples Action Center (APAC), is a cleaning service company. The primary market for Purrfect Services is the Oak Park area and the Austin community of Chicago.
The business plan for Purrfect Services outlines their first three years of operation. Through financial and other support from APAC, this start-up company plans to generate a first year profit of $4,216, a second year profit of $14,602. After the second year, Purrfect Services will no longer receive the financial and other support from APAC. In the third year, with Purrfect Services operating as an independent company and paying all of its expenses, the company will make a $2,595 profit. These figures are based on generating cleaning jobs from four segments of the market area. These segments are personal homes, realty companies, businesses, and a contract with APAC.
This business plan is based on starting up the company with 6 workers working 10 hours a week in the first year; 20 hours a week in the second year; and 35 hours a week in the third year.
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